BEVO 1 (DRAGONSAT 1)

 

BEVO 1 (DRAGONSAT 1)

BEVO 1 is a picosat mission of the University of Texas. It is sponsored under NASA JPL's DRAGONSAT program. The mission is to test a GPS unit designed and built in house by NASA Johnson. Texas A&M and the University of Texas were required to build 5" cubesat spacecraft buses and support systems for the GPS units. The satellite was deployed together with its sister satellite AggieSat2 from Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-127), but the satellites failed to seperate from each other.

  

Nation: USA
Type / Application: Technology
Operator: University of Texas at Austin
Contractors: University of Texas at Austin
Equipment: DRAGON GPS Receiver
Configuration: 5" cube
Propulsion: none
Lifetime: 3.5 kg
Mass: 5 kg
Orbit:

 

Satellite Date LS   Launcher Remarks:
BEVO 1 (DRAGONSAT 1, ex PARADIGM) 15.07.2009 CC LC-39A p Shuttle with Endeavour F23 (STS-127), JEF (JEM-EF), JLE (JEM-ELM-ES), ANDE-2 AA, ANDE-2 PA, AggieSat2

 

Last update: 27.09.2009
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